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Product designer Ariane Prin launched the brand PRIN London and RUST, the studio’s rst homeware collection last September during the London Design Festival 2015.
The RUST range is created by mixing metal particulate with various gypsum based materials. No two items in RUST are the same: each is made by hand and the metal dust oxidation gives each product a unique texture, varying in colour and intensity.
RUST by Prin London is coming back in Shoreditch at Studio1.1 Gallery with “Particle Particular” and at “Electro Craft”, an exhibition initiated by Studio Tord Boontje. Prin London will be showing new pieces for the RUST homeware collection, celebrating new signature texture e ects, hues and patterns.
RUST Timepiece, expressly designed and produced for “Electro Craft” is made of twelve sections, highlighting the inextricable relationship the material has with time. Each section of the wall clock is put through a controlled oxidisation process which can last weeks to months before being assembled. Each Timepiece features a new range of colour arrays explored by Prin London: grey, orange, green and blue, for steel, brass and copper dust. The combination of the various sections is in nite, all clocks are numbered and unique, they will also continue to evolve over time.
RUST
One-o vessels made by hand and coloured by RUST. A continuation of Ariane Prin’s line of work, RUST is inspired by the desire to create new form and utility out of commonly disregarded waste materials.
The collection’s varied surface patterns are obtained by the oxidation of metal particles originating from locksmith shops and other metalworking workshops local to PRIN’s studio.
Ariane Prin says about her process:
> “It takes us about three days to complete a piece in RUST. That is not considering the oxidation time (from few weeks, to months) and the high variability of the process. Every time I go to my studio I’m excited to see the objects’ changing textures. It’s like each one of them was alive and slowly mutating with time”.
> “I am working blind, the pieces are white at the beginning and they take their coloration over time. I never know what result I will get”.
> “The shapes I chose for the RUST range are extremely simple. I wanted to let the material and its visual articulation be the heroes of this series of products”.
ABOUT THE DESIGNER
French-born Ariane Prin’s work spans across the experimentation and reinterpretation of raw waste materials to create new products, and her work as industrial designer with various clients, including Jasper Conran for whom she recently helped on the design of tableware collections in porcelain, wood, glass and crystal for Wedgwood and Waterford.
Ariane Prin graduated from the Royal College of Art (MA, design products) in 2011. Her work has been exhibited internationally since 2004, including Mint Gallery and Heal’s in London, Cité de la Mode et du Design and S.Bensimon Gallery in Paris.
Prin regularly hosts workshops to share her creative process with a broader audience in collaboration with companies and institutions such as the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Institute of Making, The Dock of Tom Dixon.
Ariane Prin has been awarded the 2014 prize at the prestigious Vallauris International Biennale of Ceramic for her project Water Cups Fountain.